Analysis Of Governance, Order, And Change In World Politics

James Rosenau (1992) composed the first chapter of “Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics” in the aftermath of the Cold War. It was his argument that, rather than forming a world government to manage the world’s affairs, attentions should instead be focused on global governance. He also stressed that an increased level of governance would help propel the world towards a positive direction. The world faced an uncertain future following the end of the Cold War. The dissolution of the bipolar system that the world had been long composed of prompted many questions as to what the world’s future would look like. Rosenau (1992) wrote that the world had reached a fork in the road, where one path led to a bright future of high living standards and increased human rights, and the other led to a bleak future of intensified conflict. He believed that world leaders had a new control of the world’s future, and that one way to guide the world to a positive future was through global governance (p. 1). Before continuing this discussion, it is vital to distinguish between …show more content…
Global order is defined as “those routinized arrangements through which world politics gets from one moment in time to the next” (p. 5). Those routinized, or patterned, arrangements consist of the indeliberate and the deliberate efforts of individuals. Rosenau (1992) uses the nongovernmental organization Amnesty International to illustrate these efforts. An Amnesty International researcher working on a specific torture case is not intentionally contributing to global order. However, their work is a minute-piece of a much larger sphere, and therefore they are indeliberately contributing to global order. Amnesty International also contributes deliberately to global order, by issuing periodicals on human rights abuses, and by assigning cases to various workers